Search Results: Authors starting with K from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Paris: Perrin et C., 1919. Third French Edition. Wraps. Very good. Duodecimo; pp. xxxi, (i), (3), 4-165, (i); original blue printed paper wrappers in glassine;. Translated from the English by Lt. Louis Thomas. Contains a Preface by Theodore Roosevelt extolling the work and villifying Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany and their conduct in the Great War.Foreword by Haldane Macfall.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1996. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo; pp; lix, (i), 447, (i), with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, plus twenty-seven additional illustrations including two maps; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Kane's is a well known tragedy of Arctic exploration.

London: Alec Tiranti Ltd, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Duodecimo; pp; vii, (i), 38; Map and eighty-six black and white plates; black cloth lettered in white in a dust jacket;. A very clean tight copy in jacket.

London: Alec Tiranti Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Duodecimo; pp; viii, 46; Map and sixty-one black and white plates; black cloth lettered in white in a dust jacket;. A very clean tight copy in jacket.

New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, 1929. First American Edition. Hardcover. spine darkened else a clean tight very good copy. Octavo; pp; 300; burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained blue. Valentine Petrovich Kataev was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright who managed to create penetrating works discussing post-revolutionary social conditions without running afoul of the demands of official Soviet style. The Embezzlers was his first novel, a humorous work set in Moscow, translated by Leonide Zarine.

Portland: Western Fisherman's Press, 1995. Revised edition. Hardcover. Very good. (Portland:1995). Small quarto (8.75" x 11.25"), Glossy pictorial boards. Spiral bound to lay flat. 144pp. with bibliography and index. Illustrated with color photography by Mike Stidham. There is a very small amount of damage to the back cover, lower corner. Learn to tie the world's most popular dry flies.

New York: Barse & Co, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo; pp; 249, (iv), ads; frontispiece by Clare Angell; pictorial red cloth lettered in black;. A novelized WWI account of battle at the Front, a young American volunteers and meets General Joffre.

Fargo ND: North Dakota Institute For Regional Studies, North Dakota Agricultural College, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xvi, 264, index; illustrated with maps, charts and black and white photographs; green cloth, spine lettered in terra-cotta in a pictorial unclipped dust jacket; jacket has some chipping at extremities. An important study.

Boston: Pucker Gallery, 2003. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto; pp; 32; illustrated with over 100 highly finished color plates; original printed paper wrappers. Noriyasu Tsuchiya's Ceramic works are shown on a yearly basis at solo exhibitions throughout Japan. He holds regular exhibitions at Seibu Department Store Gallery in Ikebukuro, Tokyo; Hankyu Department Store in Umeda, Osaka; Seibu Department Store Gallery in Akita, Akita; Galaxy Fukunaga in Ube, Yamaguchi; Gallery Koh in Ginza, Tokyo; and Gyoza Gallery in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto. He also exhibits, in conjunction with his former teacher Tatsuzo Shimaoka at joint teacher-student exhibitions throughout Japan.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xi, (iii), 340, index; brown cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Considered a vital work on the Amherst poet.

New York: Hill and Wang, A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; xix, (iii), 194, (i), author bio; steel gray cloth lettered in silver;. Collected articles by Blum, Mencken and others; Provocative.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1990. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo; pp; lviii, 367, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, and thirty-seven additional illustrations including a map; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Traveling to Idaho with an emigrant train from her home in Kansas, the nineteen-year-old Mrs. Kelly was captured west of Ft. Laramie by a band of Oglalla Sioux on July 12, 1864, and was held prisoner until December 12 of that year.

London: Thomas Kelly Paternoster Row, 1867. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; iv, [5], 168, 32, (4, iv) catalogue, Illustrated with six engraved plates; pebbled brown cloth lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers; Some toning, spine ends worn, else very good and complete. A nice unsophisticated copy.

Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Quarto; pp. (8), 9-184 with index; Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white by Simon Calburn; decorated cream cloth, in dust jacket and slipcase; Near fine; "This monograph on the twelve owl species that inhabit the southern African sub-region has been written by a leading specialist on birds of prey and illustrated by one of South Africa's best known bird artists. The result is an authoritative and visually exciting book that will undoubtedly become a standard work on this group of birds". A beautiful copy!

New York: Atria Books, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xiv, 306; blue cloth and red paper covered boards, lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket; Very good in very good dust-jacket. Fenway Park, Saturday, 8/30/03: Yankees versus Red Sox. Not just a special day in a historic rivalry but a unique one in the long tradition of baseball writing. For on this day award-winning sportswriter Steve Kettmann worked with a team of top reporters to chronicle everything that happened, from the point of view of everyone involved. With One Day at Fenway, Kettmann goes beyond the ballpark to bring you interviews and anecdotes involving all the major players—from Red Sox owner John Henry and CEO Larry Lucchino, privately second-guessing Grady Little's managing moves during the game; to Yankee skipper Joe Torre, worrying on the bench about Mariano Rivera, who can't find home plate; to Sox slugger Manny Ramirez, who missed the game with a throat infection. And there's more: the… Read More

Paris: Editions A. et J. Picard, 1949. First edition in French. Hardcover. Very good.. First edition in French of The Creation of the Rococo (Philadelphia 1943), translated by Jeanne Marie. Quarto, original printed paper wrappers. Includes extensive bibliographical references in the footnotes and index. "The basic pioneer work on the Rococo style with special attention to its creation during the last years of louis XIV and the Regency period. Treats the Rococo as a French style only distantly related to Italian Baroque. A difficult book for the student and the general reader, most rewarding for the specialist" Arntzen & Rainwater, p.42. Ehresmann 1247. Wittenborn Book Seller's tag at rear. This copy from the library of noted art critic and educator, S. Lane Faison. It has his stamp, is signed by him and there are some notes, marginalia in his hand. Illustrated. Two hundred seventy-four illustrations on plates.

New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 240, index; profusely illustrated in color; 240 pp; pictorial printed fibroid flexible boards lettered in blue;. Forward by Joel Robuchon, photography by Yohei Maruyama.

Philadelphia: L. R. Hammersly & Co, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear, else very good. Octavo; pp; 214, (vii), ads; green cloth, lettered in gilt, patterened end papers;. King, a West Point graduate who served in the Indian Wars under George Crook, wrote and edited 60 novels and wrote several scripts for Buffalo Bill Cody's silent films. His military experience greatly influenced his writing. This book provides great insight into the life and times of an Indian Wars Period Frontier Officer.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 230, (vi), ads; decorated blue cloth, lettered in gilt, patterned end papers; Light wear, else very good. King, a West Point graduate who served in the Indian Wars under George Crook, wrote and edited 60 novels and wrote several scripts for Buffalo Bill Cody's silent films. His military experience greatly influenced his writing. This book provides great insight into the life and times of an Indian Wars Period Frontier Officer.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, decorated blue cloth, gilt. 446pp. plus an ad leaf. Illustrated by J. Steeple Davis. Frontispiece and three black and whote plates. Plain endpapers. Dornbush & Russell #25. Cover style #5. Very good. Former owner's name in pencil.